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. >> mike barnicle, if i were a republican on the campaign trail right now i would have said three weeks ago, i didn't have a whole lot to campaign on other than overblown rhetoric, i can talk about the obama health care tax. i don't care what mitt romney's stupid people said. obama passed and it's a law of the land a health care tax. >> messed that up. >> and obama is now passing -- try to push a small business tax. i've got two taxes. that's all i'm talk about in my district between now and the campaign. i kick any democrat in a swing district across america legislatively. romney can't do this, but legislatively, this seems like the president's hurting his own cause. >> unless you consider the fact the two words you used that have been thrown around the table in the past two minutes both have incendiary value to voters. one word is taxes. as incendiary value to voters. the other word is millionaire as incendiary value to many, many voters. you use those two words both sides use those words and see where the fire starts burning most fiercely. >> i think they're right on target. >> my po
. >> mike barnicle, if i were a republican on the campaign trail right now i would have said three weeks ago, i didn't have a whole lot to campaign on other than overblown rhetoric, i can talk about the obama health care tax. i don't care what mitt romney's stupid people said. obama passed and it's a law of the land a health care tax. >> messed that up. >> and obama is now passing -- try to push a small business tax. i've got two taxes. that's all i'm talk about in my district...
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not while i'm speaking. >> an eventful week for president obama actually began late last week during his call and response announcement of a shift in immigration policy. >> this is the right thing to do for the american people. i didn't ask for an argument. i'm answering your question. >> mitt romney was unmoved by the president's new position. >> he saves these sort of things until four and a half months before the general election. >> president obama also headlined the g-20 summit in mexico. it included a photo op with russian president vladimir putt than looked like two people out to dinner as they finalized their divorce. then there was the invocation of executive privilege over the atf gun running operation named after a vin diesel car movie. >> i live my life a quarter mile at a time. nothing else matters. >> and how much did the president know about this? >> it shouldn't be a political witch hunt. >> senator harry reid, what's your take on this whole fast and furious deal, bro? >> i don't want to answer that question. that's a clown question, bro. >> up next, the democratic go
not while i'm speaking. >> an eventful week for president obama actually began late last week during his call and response announcement of a shift in immigration policy. >> this is the right thing to do for the american people. i didn't ask for an argument. i'm answering your question. >> mitt romney was unmoved by the president's new position. >> he saves these sort of things until four and a half months before the general election. >> president obama also...
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wish huntsman had had the fastness of mind to say how about that guy judd gregg, isn't he working for obama too. >> there was an advertisement in your paper a couple of weeks ago questioning all these from the red state and george will about the true conservative in this race being john huntsman. let me ask you as a small government conservative as well. why does huntsman have the best conservative record, most consistent through the year, but he's not doing well in the debate. why didn't you give him your endorsement. >> i think he tried to position himself as a moderate over the conservatives. his record is more conservative than the way he introduced himself. >> any predictions, joe? >> well, romney, but not by as much as anybody says, and a real close shot for second. >> and wayne, you love this field. tell me, wayne, who's going to win it. >> the polls are the polls, but i remember in 2000, john mccain and george w. bush in the closing days were neck and neck and george one by 8 points. what ? customers didn't like it. so why do banks do it ? hello ? hello ?! if your bank doesn't let y
wish huntsman had had the fastness of mind to say how about that guy judd gregg, isn't he working for obama too. >> there was an advertisement in your paper a couple of weeks ago questioning all these from the red state and george will about the true conservative in this race being john huntsman. let me ask you as a small government conservative as well. why does huntsman have the best conservative record, most consistent through the year, but he's not doing well in the debate. why didn't...
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one point, or as it's also known, the thing obama failed to make during last week's debate. huh? speaking of the election, you guys, the vice presidential debate is just three days away. both sides are busy getting ready and republican candidate paul ryan says he expects joe biden to come at him like a cannon ball. biden was like, there's going to be a pool there? i'm more of a belly flop guy, but i can -- >>> and with us now from washington, pulitzer prize winning columnist, msnbc political analyst eugene robinson. i've got to ask you the big question, are you for the nats or for the orioles? >> i've got to be for the nats, although we're a mixed marriage. my wife was born in baltimore. >> oh. >> not an ill word can be said about the baltimore orioles in my house. >> yeah. >> nonetheless, i'm following the nats and cheering the nats. but, you know, the orioles are playing the yankees last night and beat them. you've got to root against the yankees, right? >> of course you do. if you love -- well, i mean, only if you love america. >> yes, right. >> i do love america. >> you do lo
one point, or as it's also known, the thing obama failed to make during last week's debate. huh? speaking of the election, you guys, the vice presidential debate is just three days away. both sides are busy getting ready and republican candidate paul ryan says he expects joe biden to come at him like a cannon ball. biden was like, there's going to be a pool there? i'm more of a belly flop guy, but i can -- >>> and with us now from washington, pulitzer prize winning columnist, msnbc...
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next week obama is actually the good news for him, he's an underdog. all he has to do is look adepressive, feel aggressive, show up how he he should have showed up. if romney wins that debate again, i think he wins the election, because there's no way to say although tuld and he didn't want to come down to romney's level. you can't make an excuse the second time. talk about a must win. that's the flipside. >> we were saying last week that mitt romney's back was against the wall, and if mitt romney didn't stand up and deliver, the election was over. we were saying that here, and guess what? that was just the case. a lot of freakazoids on the extreme right didn't want to hear. they wanted to blame the pollsters and the media. romney had to stand up and deliver. he stood up and delivered, so we reset the campaign. guess what? the shoe is on the other foot now. if barack obama blows it again like the first debate, i aagree with donny. that creates momentum that pushing mitt romney towards the finish line. >> we focus and talk a lot -- >> by the way, now it
next week obama is actually the good news for him, he's an underdog. all he has to do is look adepressive, feel aggressive, show up how he he should have showed up. if romney wins that debate again, i think he wins the election, because there's no way to say although tuld and he didn't want to come down to romney's level. you can't make an excuse the second time. talk about a must win. that's the flipside. >> we were saying last week that mitt romney's back was against the wall, and if...
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i mean, that is a good line of attack. >> we talked about this two weeks ago, the obama campaign clearly is on this path now. heap has a resumÉ. mitt romney has a resumÉ -- >> of governing. >> and on that resumÉ is included his time as chief executive of the state, they were ranked 47th in job performance. the facts are the facts, that's what it is. if your whole brand is a fix it guy, a turn around guy, it's very easy for the obama campaign to say why didn't you fix it when you had a chance to fix the state of massachusetts. >> mike, if he's a fix it guy at bain capital, why didn't up use those skills and apply them to when you were governor? if he was a fix it guy at the olympics and saved the olympics in 2002, that's great because i love downhill skiing -- >> when they fly in the air like that, i love that. what was t-- >> what was the mass scott in 2002? the duffus i think, the hair slicked around. when you're governor, i'm sure you're not going to end up number 47th in job creation and number one in debt. use that attack. stop the stupid anti-capitalism attack. americans get that
i mean, that is a good line of attack. >> we talked about this two weeks ago, the obama campaign clearly is on this path now. heap has a resumÉ. mitt romney has a resumÉ -- >> of governing. >> and on that resumÉ is included his time as chief executive of the state, they were ranked 47th in job performance. the facts are the facts, that's what it is. if your whole brand is a fix it guy, a turn around guy, it's very easy for the obama campaign to say why didn't you fix it...
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you're correct about that. >> well, here's what president obama said on september 12th, the day of the attack. quote, the world must stand together to unequivocally reject these brutal acts. no acts of terror will ever shake the resolve of this great nation, alter that character, or eclipse the light of the values that we stand for. the bigger picture, a missed opportunity for mitt romney. >> yeah. i mean, a missed opportunity. and there were quite a few missed opportunities, actually, for mitt romney. where, again, it was very clear that he was thrown off with his debate style. had he been behind the podium, he had a couple of slam dunks that just laid up for him that he should have put away, and he just didn't do it. that said, there were some flash polls out last night. >> yeah, cbs poll. >> there were some fascinating discrepancies in these polls that we ought to talk about, and you guys can tell me what it means. >> this one looked at uncommitted voters, and it has president obama winning by a 37% margin with 30% calling it a tie. a cnn/orc poll, similar result. seven-point margin
you're correct about that. >> well, here's what president obama said on september 12th, the day of the attack. quote, the world must stand together to unequivocally reject these brutal acts. no acts of terror will ever shake the resolve of this great nation, alter that character, or eclipse the light of the values that we stand for. the bigger picture, a missed opportunity for mitt romney. >> yeah. i mean, a missed opportunity. and there were quite a few missed opportunities,...
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and weeks and weeks, that bain capital will somehow be a silver bullet for obama. there just isn't evidence of that so far. the obama people will tell you that it's eroding romney's credibility but it's just not happening. closely related, the tax return argument. the obama campaign pushing that again in a video this morning. the romney folks will tell you whatever you think about mitt romney and he may not have been a very good tourist as you've been pointing out, people won't believe that he's shady, people won't buy the idea that he's dishonest. they're banking on that. a couple of the other lies we tell ourselves, wishful thinking on the parts of the campaign, any moment of the voters are going to engage, there's no sign that voters are moving or changing their minds. and for the obama folks, they say the base is going to come back. all those 2008 voters are going to come back, they just aren't. there still is a huge enthusiasm gap for both of these parties. >> up know, mark halperin, what's so fascinating is these may be lies both sides are telling each other
and weeks and weeks, that bain capital will somehow be a silver bullet for obama. there just isn't evidence of that so far. the obama people will tell you that it's eroding romney's credibility but it's just not happening. closely related, the tax return argument. the obama campaign pushing that again in a video this morning. the romney folks will tell you whatever you think about mitt romney and he may not have been a very good tourist as you've been pointing out, people won't believe that...
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if obama is seen objectively as hunkering down and not playing any games this week, really working, no mickey mouse, no big bird stuff. just do the damn job you were elected to this week. i think it'll take the poison and anger against him out of the race. and a little bit for this whole election, a little bit makes a bit of difference. and i think getting together and not being -- i think it's great that bloomberg said nice things about andrew cuomo, that's a new one, or christie said nice things about the president. they're operating like it's not intermurals anymore, it's the big game and that's always better for the country and the incumbent. >> off of what you just said, governor christie's endorsement yesterday of the president as president doing his job as you just indicated was pretty powerful stuff. >> and i think it's because christie wants to be a good governor, he wants to be president some day and the way to be president is a be a good governor and it doesn't hurt to kiss the president. it all makes sense if you think about it. >> let's talk about the polls that have been
if obama is seen objectively as hunkering down and not playing any games this week, really working, no mickey mouse, no big bird stuff. just do the damn job you were elected to this week. i think it'll take the poison and anger against him out of the race. and a little bit for this whole election, a little bit makes a bit of difference. and i think getting together and not being -- i think it's great that bloomberg said nice things about andrew cuomo, that's a new one, or christie said nice...
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i do not understand politically what the obama team is doing. and, you know, off the record, without using their names, a lot of people on the romney team are going, what are they -- what are they doing? >> on the flip side, the republican ad, going after the solar energy. who are they talking to? >> yeah. exactly. >> who are they talking to? i mean, that was absurd. so to me, i even give the bain attack an a compared to that. >> well, but with solyndra and with bain, you've got the parties preaching to the choirs. i said yesterday, i care about solynd solyndra. but swing voters, i'm sorry, they don't care about solyndra. you may care about bain capital. swing voters, they don't care about what mitt romney did 10 years ago in a company. where they know he was supposed to make profit. that's just stupid. that's a stupid argument. and if you want the swing voters that are going to put barack obama in the white house. i just -- i do not understand the white house strategy. i'm just saying politically. >> it seems smarter for them. and i bet they wi
i do not understand politically what the obama team is doing. and, you know, off the record, without using their names, a lot of people on the romney team are going, what are they -- what are they doing? >> on the flip side, the republican ad, going after the solar energy. who are they talking to? >> yeah. exactly. >> who are they talking to? i mean, that was absurd. so to me, i even give the bain attack an a compared to that. >> well, but with solyndra and with bain,...
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neither campaign was in the field last week. they are all going into the field this week. they don't know how last week went. there is fingernail chewing, if you will, about how last week went. talk to somebody in the obama campaign and they share your concern. how political did it look? they are convinced three months from now nobody will remember biden had to drive this and it was fund raising and all this. it will be seen in a better light. i tell you, i think -- you brought up those states. the biggest swing state this could impact is iowa. >> wow. >> that is where the president was making a comeback. he was down and making a comeback. >> in iowa you have a recall of three judges? >> it became a big fight of this idea of wait a minute, judges are telling us what to do. look, it split the state right down the middle. >> yeah. >> if there was a state that i thought in talking to both campaigns they agree, iowa is the one place where they think long term, if this gay marriage thing has impact it's there. the other thing about last week and the fingernails in chicago chewi
neither campaign was in the field last week. they are all going into the field this week. they don't know how last week went. there is fingernail chewing, if you will, about how last week went. talk to somebody in the obama campaign and they share your concern. how political did it look? they are convinced three months from now nobody will remember biden had to drive this and it was fund raising and all this. it will be seen in a better light. i tell you, i think -- you brought up those states....
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that's three weeks. today president obama returns to campaign mode, taking his fiscal cliff message to detroit. yesterday the president and speaker boehner met privately at the white house. their first face-to-face meeting since they agreed last week to clear everyone else out of the negotiating room. neither side revealed anything about the meeting that was part of the agreement. only saying that the lines of communication remain open. but yesterday another influential republican, senator bob corker from the senate banking committee, said his party should consider the president's position on raising tax rates on the wealthy. >> there is a growing group of folks that are looking at this and realizing that we don't have a lot of cards as it relates to the tax issue before year end. i mean, we have one house, that's it. the presidency and the senate's in the democrats' hands. a lot of people are putting forth a theory, and i actually think it has merit where you go ahead and give the president the 2% incre
that's three weeks. today president obama returns to campaign mode, taking his fiscal cliff message to detroit. yesterday the president and speaker boehner met privately at the white house. their first face-to-face meeting since they agreed last week to clear everyone else out of the negotiating room. neither side revealed anything about the meeting that was part of the agreement. only saying that the lines of communication remain open. but yesterday another influential republican, senator bob...
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and i agree, if the election were held at the end of last week, i think obama would have won. now we're within the margin of error. >> what breaks through? there's nothing breaking through. here they come, there they go, same message. >> ceiling. just is any undecided going to go to obama or has he maxed out? >> this is what's in our poll, all the undecided did not -- they looked like they could go obama and split at least 50/50 obama, if not more. >> just on the demographic question, the percentage of the white vote, right? is it '72? is it '74? we have very big turnout. we do generous turnout for romney similar to 2004. but whether he's going to get two-thirds of the independent vote, we don't think that's going to happen. even if you have minorities and younger voters not as fired up, you've got to see this shift going on in the electorate. >> how about asking it this way. think about this. you covered bush. so you know he was obsessed with hispanic votes. >> yeah. >> if mitt romney got the hissman vote that george w. bush got in 2004, the percentage -- >> this race would b
and i agree, if the election were held at the end of last week, i think obama would have won. now we're within the margin of error. >> what breaks through? there's nothing breaking through. here they come, there they go, same message. >> ceiling. just is any undecided going to go to obama or has he maxed out? >> this is what's in our poll, all the undecided did not -- they looked like they could go obama and split at least 50/50 obama, if not more. >> just on the...
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and this is another part of this republican reboot we're seeing just in the last week. three big issues where the republican party is changing before our eyes. immigration, they want to talk about president obama about it, work with him on it, gay marriage. the house leaders who asked for one of the supreme court cases, silent since the court took it. now defense cuts. more and more republicans are saying that they're willing to talk about it. >> good. >> saying it junt cuts their credibility on other spending issues. >> good. >> it's the pentagon. >> there is so much waste in the pentagon. it's one of the few bureaucracies you can't audit. it is impossible. whether you're talking to peter peterson, dave walker, they tell you, you can't audit the pentagon. it is impossible. >> and yet there are some republicans you say who are willing to go out on a ledge and say it's time to look at this. and what are the costs of doing that politically? >> well, they are, and part of it is the changing times. it's not the cold war anymore. it's these younger members who are coming up.
and this is another part of this republican reboot we're seeing just in the last week. three big issues where the republican party is changing before our eyes. immigration, they want to talk about president obama about it, work with him on it, gay marriage. the house leaders who asked for one of the supreme court cases, silent since the court took it. now defense cuts. more and more republicans are saying that they're willing to talk about it. >> good. >> saying it junt cuts their...
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, they'll get behind romney. >> you know, i think one of the surprising things for me over the last week is newt gingrich, touching on what you said before, willie, newt gingrich has a good chance, had a good chance a week ago of winning south carolina, of winning florida. forget -- i mean forget iowa. if he had been disciplined enough to keep looking forward instead of getting bogged down in the bitterness, i think he'd be in a lot better shape this morning than he is. >> it's like a cross reference bridge. i'm going to give up this card. >> but he's not going away. >> no, that's fine. i think it's good for romney to have the competition. >> i think it might be. >> and to have somebody get ugly against him. remember where barack obama is from, chicago. >> can newt gingrich still win the nomination? can he win south carolina? >> he can win south carolina, but i don't think he can win the nomination. again, because he's got to do it serially. the only guy that can operate in parallel is mitt romney. >> all right, rich galen, thank you very much. >>> coming up, we have illinois congressman
, they'll get behind romney. >> you know, i think one of the surprising things for me over the last week is newt gingrich, touching on what you said before, willie, newt gingrich has a good chance, had a good chance a week ago of winning south carolina, of winning florida. forget -- i mean forget iowa. if he had been disciplined enough to keep looking forward instead of getting bogged down in the bitterness, i think he'd be in a lot better shape this morning than he is. >> it's like...
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obama has not won, and it's not clear what the republicans are going to do. and there has not been that -- and it's not about a laundry list of small things or big things. it's -- and this is what bill clinton was really great at. i feel your pain or i feel your anxiety. i'm tuned into you, and i'm going to do something to help you. >> okay. and there were some flourishing lines there that didn't have a lot of detail. but what tom brokaw, do you expect in the state of the union address that's supposed to address the entire state of the union? and he i think went from a to z in terms of the key factors that really affect people today. jobs, he talked about the deficit, we can't say he didn't when he did. and also the disparity that people are feeling out there. >> well, listen, in an election year, a state of the union address is essentially a campaign statement. what he's trying to do is set the map for next fall and get his version of events out there and in high school debate they call this defining the terms. and he's trying to define the terms of this deb
obama has not won, and it's not clear what the republicans are going to do. and there has not been that -- and it's not about a laundry list of small things or big things. it's -- and this is what bill clinton was really great at. i feel your pain or i feel your anxiety. i'm tuned into you, and i'm going to do something to help you. >> okay. and there were some flourishing lines there that didn't have a lot of detail. but what tom brokaw, do you expect in the state of the union address...
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in it and we saw last week who obama care looks like. it's one man, the president of the united states who can beat himself a health care czar or dictator and make one decision and everyone else in the united states has to follow. that's what i think people need to recognize and our nominee neats to explain the detriments of his foreign policy and new budget will have vast ramifications going forward. that's what the nominee needs to do. focus on the policies and the rest will take care of itself. >> congresswoman, listening to your legitimate concerns about the fiscal dangers posed by the extension of the payroll tax cut, how does a republican balance those concerns with the extension or continued extension, proposed continued extension of the bush tax cuts? >> they won't be continuing under barack obama. they are going to go away. that is what is troublesome. what people want more than anything are jobs. i'm a small business owner myself. we are looking at tax rates from 35% on small business owners to almost 40%. that's a cost of doin
in it and we saw last week who obama care looks like. it's one man, the president of the united states who can beat himself a health care czar or dictator and make one decision and everyone else in the united states has to follow. that's what i think people need to recognize and our nominee neats to explain the detriments of his foreign policy and new budget will have vast ramifications going forward. that's what the nominee needs to do. focus on the policies and the rest will take care of...
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it's right with all what obama was saying, unbelievable, march madness for three weeks is its best and it's march mayhem at its best and that's what they want to do is bring the mayhem moments. think about it, i go to bed, 25-point lead, iona is blowing it out, unbelievable and they get beat. that's march mayhem at its best. >> incredible start, and the game before that western kentucky was down 16 with five minutes to go and they come back to win. a lot of people watching this show, last minute, filling out the brackets, they want to know what should i do, what is dick vitale telling them in terms of a final four this year? >> well, let me tell you this, first of all, if you listen to me, you're in trouble, but i will tell you right now, i think, willie, i look right now that the goliath will ultimately prevail. i think we've seen the midmajors, shock, chasing that dream, the butlers, vcu, georgia mason, the davids beating the goliaths, so special, so unique, bring so much passion. but i think this year because the kids coming back to school that didn't go to the pros, one and done li
it's right with all what obama was saying, unbelievable, march madness for three weeks is its best and it's march mayhem at its best and that's what they want to do is bring the mayhem moments. think about it, i go to bed, 25-point lead, iona is blowing it out, unbelievable and they get beat. that's march mayhem at its best. >> incredible start, and the game before that western kentucky was down 16 with five minutes to go and they come back to win. a lot of people watching this show, last...
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about four or five weeks ago. this is also a magazine that when barack obama lost the first debate very clearly, we weren't deluded about that. the cover of this magazine was mitt romney debating an empty chair. i think it's possible to have politics in a magazine but also to see things clear and be tough-minded about power that's in power. and we have been about barack obama, whether it's on afghanistan, whether it's on finance, whether it's on predator drones. which is something that concerns you. which is why i'm surprised that you're so shocked that we would set the context for obama's presidency, which is you follow somebody. you have a set of problems. you have a set of disasters in this case. that you have to deal with. and financial deregulation, for example, we know did not begin under george bush. bill clinton was responsible for a lot of it. >> and i screwed up with the vote on that myself back in '99. i'm not shocked, mika. obviously, people tune into the show because they like debate. >> yeah. >> we'v
about four or five weeks ago. this is also a magazine that when barack obama lost the first debate very clearly, we weren't deluded about that. the cover of this magazine was mitt romney debating an empty chair. i think it's possible to have politics in a magazine but also to see things clear and be tough-minded about power that's in power. and we have been about barack obama, whether it's on afghanistan, whether it's on finance, whether it's on predator drones. which is something that concerns...
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i'm best equipped to run against president obama come the fall. that's the decision you have to make. i have to coalesce republicans around me. on the other hand rick santorum has been very impressive especially in the last week. >> especially with the retail politicking. i'm going to put you on the spot. how would you characterize this field at this stage of the game, especially after the people we talked about, congressman king who came to the show today, republican, five-term congressman from iowa undecided. >> it is the same campaign today that it was a year ago. you've got mitt romney, a moderate, getting 24, 25% against a conservative field that's splitting the other 75% of the vote. mike barnacle, it looks like it's going to stay like that for a long time because nobody is getting out. i believe, and tom is right, i believe we haven't seen somebody go up and down and back up, but that's only because we haven't had the time. i think people will continue to grapple, conservatives, with the possibility of mitt romney winning. >> well, two thin
i'm best equipped to run against president obama come the fall. that's the decision you have to make. i have to coalesce republicans around me. on the other hand rick santorum has been very impressive especially in the last week. >> especially with the retail politicking. i'm going to put you on the spot. how would you characterize this field at this stage of the game, especially after the people we talked about, congressman king who came to the show today, republican, five-term...
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in fact, i think they are hoping they can effectively put it away in the next few weeks, the obama folks here don't agree with that. the ohio is the toughest one. romney continues to have i had yoeen idiosyncratic problems particularly the auto bailout. his time in ohio this weekend showed that he's looking for a winning economic message, part of it revolves around energy. but i think in general, he's going to need a stronger message there on bringing back the ohio economy which, of course, is already improving, which is complicating his message there when you've got a republican governor going around talking about how great ohio is doing. >> yeah, real quick, jonathan, is the map the winning map for mitt romney without the state of ohio? is that a pipe dream, really? >> not necessarily. there is a theoretical path you can do it if you have iowa, new hampshire and colorado and nevada. again, if you lose one of those other states and you're romney, without ohio, then you don't get 270, and that's the problem. if you don't have ohio, you have to win pretty much everything else, and that's
in fact, i think they are hoping they can effectively put it away in the next few weeks, the obama folks here don't agree with that. the ohio is the toughest one. romney continues to have i had yoeen idiosyncratic problems particularly the auto bailout. his time in ohio this weekend showed that he's looking for a winning economic message, part of it revolves around energy. but i think in general, he's going to need a stronger message there on bringing back the ohio economy which, of course, is...
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. >>> from the hill online, this week another obama administration health law faces a court challenge, this one over a new regulation that requires large graphic health warnings on cigarette packaging and advertisements. tomorrow the d.c. court of appeals will 00 arguments from tobacco companies who accuse the administration of overstepping its constitutional authority. >>> from a parade of papers, "the dallas morning news," the new york jets backup quarterback tim tebow drew a crowd of about 15,000 people to an outdoor easter church service outside of austin, texas. tebow told the crowd it's important to be outspoken about faith. he also implored athletes to be better role models. and, david, i know you have to be excited, tim tebow -- when are you going to put him on the cover of "the new yorker"? >> giants fan. he'll never be on the cover. >> come on. >> i have to exercise power in some way. >> after what you did to candidate obama, you need to have -- >> you think tim tebow should have a halo around his head? i'll take that under advisement. >> let me ask you really quickly, iran.
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. >> have a great week. >> talk to you soon. coming up steve rattner has new charts on the unemployment numbers including a comparison between president obama and president reagan's time in office. more "morning joe," in just a moment. >>> the president's policies have not gotten america working again, and the president's going to have to stand up and take responsibility for it. i know he's been planning on going across the country and celebrating what he calls forward. well forward doesn't look a lot like forward to the millions and millions of families struggling today in this great country. doesn't have to be this way. america can do better. and this kick in the gut has got to end. >> mitt romney on be friday reacting to the june jobs report. steve rattner has charts taking a closer look at all the numbers there. how would you characterize the numbers? bad, dismal? >> certainly worse than what we expected and better than we feared. we had two previous pretty bad months. i think people were hoping for over 100,000 jobs this la
. >> have a great week. >> talk to you soon. coming up steve rattner has new charts on the unemployment numbers including a comparison between president obama and president reagan's time in office. more "morning joe," in just a moment. >>> the president's policies have not gotten america working again, and the president's going to have to stand up and take responsibility for it. i know he's been planning on going across the country and celebrating what he calls...
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that's how i took his speech this week, and there's a reason. mitt romney has been very cagey on the details of what he's doing. he has not named his cuts, not named the offsets on the tax plan, though neither has paul ryan. not clear how fast his medicare vouchers will grow. there's a lot of things that mitt romney has said that i don't -- that it is not wise for me to say exactly which agencies i would close right now, what i would cut right now. paul ryan has filled in all those details. or a lot of them at least, where mitt romney is wanting to be vague. paul ryan and house republicans have gotten very specific. so something that romney is doing in some ways because he is a smart politician, because for some degree it's useful for a politician to obscure a little bit. ryan is taking some of that away from him. and you can argue that too ways. one is that, well, look, if republicans have already voted for the budget, if mitt romney has endorsed that budget, if barack obama is already going to run against that budget, you might as well have pa
that's how i took his speech this week, and there's a reason. mitt romney has been very cagey on the details of what he's doing. he has not named his cuts, not named the offsets on the tax plan, though neither has paul ryan. not clear how fast his medicare vouchers will grow. there's a lot of things that mitt romney has said that i don't -- that it is not wise for me to say exactly which agencies i would close right now, what i would cut right now. paul ryan has filled in all those details. or...
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if they could have spent $30 mill $35 million in the last four weeks, they could have remember, obama carried by 11. probably when the final vote's mark who you know, six months ago, mika, i wasby a republican in the state of virginia who was not supporting tim kaine. and he andatch tim kaine in virginia.y j@office.)# and he said i know you're not going to vote for me. i know you didn't support me when i was governor. but work togeidime ialked to my other republicaniends. doing across the state of virginia. that is how you win elections.times, and the governor will tell y as much as politics. and tim ka right. >> look at tim kaine this morning. >> right now from west virginia winner of last night's virginia senate race democratic ser-elsn >> hey, thanks, guys. so -- >> he looks a little tired. >> so senator, talk aat. talk about what you did because microtarget the people t thought would actually w spoke vote against you. but let them know that you were all of virginia. how did that pay off for you last night? >>elt verygood. you know we felt like we had a plan, and it was a and we st
if they could have spent $30 mill $35 million in the last four weeks, they could have remember, obama carried by 11. probably when the final vote's mark who you know, six months ago, mika, i wasby a republican in the state of virginia who was not supporting tim kaine. and he andatch tim kaine in virginia.y j@office.)# and he said i know you're not going to vote for me. i know you didn't support me when i was governor. but work togeidime ialked to my other republicaniends. doing across the state...
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it's a huge story, but also, of course, president obama is facing his challenges this week to his own party. >> and i think the republican candidate's speeches are reflecting that and responding to it. but the other big story is that a number of democrats this morning, including john larsen and former dnc chair tim kaine now joining catholic leaders in calling on the white house to modify a policy requiring faith-based groups to offer employers birth control through their insurance providers. some supporters of the president worry the mandate could become a defining issue for the 2012 election. now, the controversy is spilling over into congress. where republican house speaker john boehner is promising to lead an effort to overturn the rule. >> in opposing this requirement, the federal government has drifted dangerously beyond its constitutional boundaries, encroaching on religious freedom in a manner that affects millions of americans and harms some of our nation's most vital institutions. if the president does not reverse the department's attack on religious freedom, then the congre
it's a huge story, but also, of course, president obama is facing his challenges this week to his own party. >> and i think the republican candidate's speeches are reflecting that and responding to it. but the other big story is that a number of democrats this morning, including john larsen and former dnc chair tim kaine now joining catholic leaders in calling on the white house to modify a policy requiring faith-based groups to offer employers birth control through their insurance...
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a stunning number in the last couple of weeks is the shift in obama's ability to fix the economy, the economy numbers which was basically, to me, mitt romney's only play seems to have gone away, to me that's the stunning underbelly of the shift. >> i think it's a combination of two things. one is the democratic convention, and they made this whole focus using bill clinton, using obama. it's saying hey, you know, things may not feel good, but this is the right path forward. it may take a while, but this is the right path forward. so they got some of that and moved some independents. the other is, you know, every two days, the romney campaign is chasing another -- is chasing another tail, if you will. so for instance, today this morning they're like, okay, they're going to come out and hit the president on this change thing. on one hand it's a good line at a rally, but it's not a message. and it's all of a sudden they're trying to make it their message of the next couple of days. they tried to make redistribution their message of the day. you know, i think it's been six weeks, seven wee
a stunning number in the last couple of weeks is the shift in obama's ability to fix the economy, the economy numbers which was basically, to me, mitt romney's only play seems to have gone away, to me that's the stunning underbelly of the shift. >> i think it's a combination of two things. one is the democratic convention, and they made this whole focus using bill clinton, using obama. it's saying hey, you know, things may not feel good, but this is the right path forward. it may take a...
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his comment he made a few weeks ago about putting people back in chains was big for a week and he seeps to have slid past that. >> what about barack obama and the campaign? >> what? >> which led al sharpton to say at the time "i'm clean, i take baths." biden not only survived that, he became vice president. that's why we love him so much. >> he's genuine. >> let me ask both of you guys, how long is joe biden in the dog house over the same-sex marriage issue? because they'll say they -- inside the white house everybody says the president was angry, his staff people were kept out of meetings for a while. how long did that last and are there still bruised feelings over that? mark? >> no oval office likes to let the vice president drive the agenda. i think joe biden did him a favor. i think the timing worked out nicely for them. >> are there still bruised feelings there? >> there's a wariness, as will always has been, that joe biden can -- i've been taken by how separate the operations have been. the president does run his own shop. there's wariness but i don't think hard feelings. >> you g
his comment he made a few weeks ago about putting people back in chains was big for a week and he seeps to have slid past that. >> what about barack obama and the campaign? >> what? >> which led al sharpton to say at the time "i'm clean, i take baths." biden not only survived that, he became vice president. that's why we love him so much. >> he's genuine. >> let me ask both of you guys, how long is joe biden in the dog house over the same-sex marriage...
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. >>> when we come back, bloomberg business week's josh green on why he says obama's second term will be nothing like the last four years. >>> also, chief of nationalme nationalmemo.com, joe conason is here. and then the man who played james bond in 13 film, sir roger moore joins us onset. bill? >> joe, finally for once i have all good news for residents on the east coast. still recovering from the two big storms and especially sandy. this is a really last cold morning for people out there in the area. impact windchills are in the low 30s. heading to the 50s this afternoon. look at the extended forecast. this is going to be an all hands on deck clean-up weekend throughout the region with temperatures, especially on sunday, look at that, beautiful sunshine and 65 degrees. so we're in a pattern change. all the stormy weather on the east is exiting. warm air in the middle of the country is going to head east this weekend. look at the west coast. that's where all the storm where weather is now. temperatures have plunged. we have numerous area with rain and snow showers, especially heading
. >>> when we come back, bloomberg business week's josh green on why he says obama's second term will be nothing like the last four years. >>> also, chief of nationalme nationalmemo.com, joe conason is here. and then the man who played james bond in 13 film, sir roger moore joins us onset. bill? >> joe, finally for once i have all good news for residents on the east coast. still recovering from the two big storms and especially sandy. this is a really last cold morning...
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president obama heads to the state this morning. today's "new york times" is reporting that aides to romney say the republican candidate and running mate paul ryan will be campaigning together more often in the coming weeks, according to the report. the move underscores concerns that mr. romney is not generating enough excitement on his own and needs mr. ryan to fire up supporters that may have been evident during a campaign stop yesterday outside dayton. >> wow! that's quite a guy, isn't it? paul ryan! isn't that something? wait a second. wait a second. romney, ryan! romney, ryan! romney, ryan! there we go. all right. that's great. thank you. >> oh. sweet jesus. >> i'm sorry. i'm sorry. i shouldn't be so hard on you. i shouldn't bring up newt gingrich. >> it's just irrelevant. >> it doesn't even matter. >> it's irrelevant. what do the catholics say? holy mary mother of god? >> it's not going to work. >> pray for our sinners in thy hour of peace. >> it's not going to work. it's too late for that. >> it seems to me -- except what wou
president obama heads to the state this morning. today's "new york times" is reporting that aides to romney say the republican candidate and running mate paul ryan will be campaigning together more often in the coming weeks, according to the report. the move underscores concerns that mr. romney is not generating enough excitement on his own and needs mr. ryan to fire up supporters that may have been evident during a campaign stop yesterday outside dayton. >> wow! that's quite a...
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president obama is using that 47% comment from last week in this new ad. check it out. >> mitt romney attacked 47% of americans who pay no income tax including veterans, elderly, the disabled. >> my job is not to worry about those people. >> doesn't the president have to worry about everyone? mitt romney paid just 14.1% in taxes last year. he keeps millions in bermuda and the cayman islands. he won't release tax returns before 2010. maybe instead of attacking others on taxes, romney should come clean on his. >> i'm barack obama, and i approve this message. >> so mike, mitt romney came out on friday, showed a summary of his 2011 taxes, 14% tax rate. he gave a ton of money to charity, it should be pointed out. does this ad from president obama work, the combination of mitt romney's lower tax rate and at the same time the 47% comments? >> well, the combination of mitt romney's wealth, his income, and his tax returns make him even more vulnerable than he's already proven to be. i mean, people get money. what mitt romney does not get about money and the america
president obama is using that 47% comment from last week in this new ad. check it out. >> mitt romney attacked 47% of americans who pay no income tax including veterans, elderly, the disabled. >> my job is not to worry about those people. >> doesn't the president have to worry about everyone? mitt romney paid just 14.1% in taxes last year. he keeps millions in bermuda and the cayman islands. he won't release tax returns before 2010. maybe instead of attacking others on taxes,...
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this week only, save $10 on zyrtec® 70 count. see sunday's newspaper. >>> welcome back to fort lee high school here in fort lee, new jersey. president obama yesterday took a little break from election year politics, sat down at the white house with espn's sports guy, bill simmons. >> that's big! >> great. >> that's huge. >> i love simmons. >> in the interview, the president appears to take a little bit of credit for the linsanity and they also talk about the chicago bulls. >> over the last five years, how many times have you envisioned welcoming the world champion chicago bulls to the white house? >> every year. and it hasn't happened yet. but it will happen. >> it will happen? you're guaranteeing it? like joe namath? >> well, i've got another five years here. >> you're guaranteeing that too? >> somewhere along the line, my bulls are going to come through here. absolutely. i knew about jeremy before you did, or everybody else did, and arne duncan, my secretary of education, was captain of the harvard team. i've been on the jeremy
this week only, save $10 on zyrtec® 70 count. see sunday's newspaper. >>> welcome back to fort lee high school here in fort lee, new jersey. president obama yesterday took a little break from election year politics, sat down at the white house with espn's sports guy, bill simmons. >> that's big! >> great. >> that's huge. >> i love simmons. >> in the interview, the president appears to take a little bit of credit for the linsanity and they also talk about...
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i agree with what john heilemann said last week about ohio. without autos, without auto manufacturing, it would be very hard to see how the obama team can continue to have excitement and emotional momentum on their side in ohio. it could very well be that the car situation and the help that this administration provided could be the stonewall. however, you look at this momentum, and mike, you follow campaigns. you follow political efforts. and when you have this kind of momentum heading into the final week, it's got to be a good feeling for the romney campaign as they look at the last eight days of where they are. >> you know, usually in campaigns, joe, you know this better than any of us sitting here because you've been on the ballot. you get an indication four, five days out that something has tipped within one campaign or another. and it's set in motion. and so you sort of know who the winner will be. that's not the case this year. i fall back on something that you keep hearing repeatedly when you're out there talking with people, that the p
i agree with what john heilemann said last week about ohio. without autos, without auto manufacturing, it would be very hard to see how the obama team can continue to have excitement and emotional momentum on their side in ohio. it could very well be that the car situation and the help that this administration provided could be the stonewall. however, you look at this momentum, and mike, you follow campaigns. you follow political efforts. and when you have this kind of momentum heading into the...
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you had the play in games earlier this week. the real deal today 12:15 eastern time, colorado state and murray state. president obama, now, officially has chosen north carolina to win it all this year. the president picked kansas for the last couple of years to win it all. the jay hawks, though, bounced in the early rounds. the president chose in 2009 he chose north carolina to win the national title and they did. obama has kentucky, ohio state, and missouri joining carolina in the final four. it should be noted three of his four picks located in swing states. >> uh-huh. >> i preempt any dopey republican who is going to say today with gas prices at $3.50, how is obama picking brackets in the ncaa -- >> of course they will. >> once again, it's going to happen today, i want to know who's first to say it. >> it happens every year. >> well, he did it on monday. >> is that right? >> mitt romney said he was not read in enough to make his choices. perhaps he will be today. >>> president obama took david cameron to his first tournament
you had the play in games earlier this week. the real deal today 12:15 eastern time, colorado state and murray state. president obama, now, officially has chosen north carolina to win it all this year. the president picked kansas for the last couple of years to win it all. the jay hawks, though, bounced in the early rounds. the president chose in 2009 he chose north carolina to win the national title and they did. obama has kentucky, ohio state, and missouri joining carolina in the final four....
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president obama is on a bit after college tour this week. at the university of iowa today, the last stop on a three-state tour through swing state college campuses. yesterday he was at the university of north carolina in chapel hill where he made a special appearance on "late night with jimmy fallon." he asked the president about his personal relationship with mitt romney. >> if mitt romney was in the room with you right now, what would you say to him? >> i'd say, hey, mitt. >> good. that was good. that's pretty good. >> yeah. >> do you know mitt romney? >> i've met him. but we're not friends. he seems like somebody who cares deeply with about his family and his wife is lovely. >> eventually, within a couple months, going to put out attack ads and then it gets personal. >> it's not like the best introduction to somebody. >> it's not the greatest way to get to know somebody. >> if you want to get to know somebody, there are better ways to do it. >> classic. he sounds like he has a nice family, his wife seems nice. i don't know about the man h
president obama is on a bit after college tour this week. at the university of iowa today, the last stop on a three-state tour through swing state college campuses. yesterday he was at the university of north carolina in chapel hill where he made a special appearance on "late night with jimmy fallon." he asked the president about his personal relationship with mitt romney. >> if mitt romney was in the room with you right now, what would you say to him? >> i'd say, hey,...
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it makes the contract with america look like the new deal. >> president obama hinted this week that he does not approve of the republican budget proposal, mocking mitt romney's word choice in support of the plan. >> he even called it marvelous, which is a word you don't often hear when it comes to describing the budget. it's a word you don't hear even generally. >> even "mad men" got in a cheap shot at romney. >> he's not going to michigan because romney is a clown. >> the head of the rnc compared its problem with women voters to an invented problem with mythical caterpillars. >> if the democrats said we had a problem with war on caterpillars, and the mainstream media talked about it, then we'd have a problem with caterpillars. >> rick santorum promised to fight on in a fantasy he had where he is george washington, and the rest of the field are german mercenaries. >> and that's why he crossed the delaware, surprised the hessians, and turned the tide of the revolution. >> in this combative week of national politics, it was ann romney who leapt to her husband's defense, threatening to un
it makes the contract with america look like the new deal. >> president obama hinted this week that he does not approve of the republican budget proposal, mocking mitt romney's word choice in support of the plan. >> he even called it marvelous, which is a word you don't often hear when it comes to describing the budget. it's a word you don't hear even generally. >> even "mad men" got in a cheap shot at romney. >> he's not going to michigan because romney is a...
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exact same thing that mitt romney is now. >> i'm a supporter of president obama, but two weeks ago, it changed everything for me when those numbers came out. i was holding steadfastly that he was going to win. out of ten of the swing states, five of those the unemployment numbers are better than the national average. there's a little rosier picture in some of those swing states. again, i'm searching -- >> well, things like that do matter. >> they do matter. the thing at the end of the day, we can talk all we want, and if the economic numbers, if the jobless numbers continue to go south, it's over. that's it. we all know, you vote, do you keep the guy in office or kick him out? if i take the quote of mitt romney, the last four weeks of the election, start looking hard at massachusetts, and say, it ain't great now, but look what that guy did, you scare people into staying the same. but it's very questionable. >> donny says he's wavering. remember the famous line, the if i've lost donny deutsch, i've lost -- it rears its head once again. >> also lost a lot of kj jelly that goes along w
exact same thing that mitt romney is now. >> i'm a supporter of president obama, but two weeks ago, it changed everything for me when those numbers came out. i was holding steadfastly that he was going to win. out of ten of the swing states, five of those the unemployment numbers are better than the national average. there's a little rosier picture in some of those swing states. again, i'm searching -- >> well, things like that do matter. >> they do matter. the thing at the...
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mitt romney was in pennsylvania looking to use the remarks from president obama from friday to refocus the campaign narrative. suggesting the president has an anti-business bias. here's what the president said last week in roanoke, virginia. >> if you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help. there was great teacher somewhere in your life. somebody helped to create this unbelievable american system we had that allowed you to thrive. somebody invested in roads and brinls. if you got a business, you didn't build that. somebody else made that happen. the internet didn't get invented on its own. government research created the internet so all the companies could make money off the internet. the point is, is that when we succeed, we succeed because of our individual initiative but also because we do things together. >> mitt romney says that it shows a fundamental misunderstanding of how the nation's economy works. >> to say that steve jobs didn't build apple, that henry ford didn't build ford motor, that papa john didn't build papa john pizza, ray crock didn't build mcdon
mitt romney was in pennsylvania looking to use the remarks from president obama from friday to refocus the campaign narrative. suggesting the president has an anti-business bias. here's what the president said last week in roanoke, virginia. >> if you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help. there was great teacher somewhere in your life. somebody helped to create this unbelievable american system we had that allowed you to thrive. somebody invested in roads and...
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and this is also not because that obama has been performing suddenly brilliantly or that the economy is suddenly picking up at great speed. neither of those two things are true. so it is about romney's mistakes, and that gives romney some power over the quality of his campaign. if he can go into the debates, and as harold suggested, fill in some of the specifics about how exactly he would make the next four years better than barack obama will make the next four years, he has a platform there. he's going to have millions of viewers watching that debate. and if he can sound convincing on the thing that is his strong point, i will improve the economy, i will create economic growth, and i will provide more jobs for the american people, and here is how i'm intending to do it, as opposed to somebody who has been trying four years and hasn't been able to do it, then he has a chance to get positive focus back on his campaign. >> mike, look at these numbers. the fox news poll showing down in ohio by seven. romney down in virginia by seven. down in florida by five. down in michigan by eight. d
and this is also not because that obama has been performing suddenly brilliantly or that the economy is suddenly picking up at great speed. neither of those two things are true. so it is about romney's mistakes, and that gives romney some power over the quality of his campaign. if he can go into the debates, and as harold suggested, fill in some of the specifics about how exactly he would make the next four years better than barack obama will make the next four years, he has a platform there....
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that obama elevated himself. it was a tough fight. but in the end it was a fair fight. you didn't see a negative ad in clinton/obama until the texas and ohio primaries in march. there were no negative ads until march. this race has been much more personal and vitriolic and i think no one can look at the race and say mitt romney or newt gingrich has elevated themselves in the process. no one looks like a bigger figure than when the race started. they've punched holes into each other. that's not saying that that mitt romney can't recover. but the race has been bad for them, rather than enhancing their stature, i think it's been, drug them down into the mud. >> i think the real question is michael said, what happens now. we've seen the polls, it looks like perhaps a double-digit win for romney today. we don't want to jump to the conclusion. but it looks like he's going to win. mike allen pointed out, women, if you look at the polls have completely abandoned newt gingrich in the state of florida. he can't overcome th
that obama elevated himself. it was a tough fight. but in the end it was a fair fight. you didn't see a negative ad in clinton/obama until the texas and ohio primaries in march. there were no negative ads until march. this race has been much more personal and vitriolic and i think no one can look at the race and say mitt romney or newt gingrich has elevated themselves in the process. no one looks like a bigger figure than when the race started. they've punched holes into each other. that's not...
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i was surprised that obama didn't bring it up. biggest surprise for me of the night is that it didn't come up. it's been the dominant thing in our debate for the last few weeks. >> david axelrod is coming up. jon meacham, you look over the past 25 years, 30 years or so, and you look at the republican presidential candidates who all have strengths, they've all been remarkable men in their own way, but not good debaters. you know, republicans have held our breath through the john mccain debates and the george w. bush debates and the bob dole debates and the george h.w. debates. again, a great man, a horrific debater. you know, the famous jon lovitz line, "i can't believe i'm losing to this guy." playing michael dukakis. you really do have to go back to ronald reagan to find a republican that was in command during a presidential debate. and i predict that's going to excite the republican base in a way it hasn't been excited in a very long time. we're not used to winning debates like this. >> right. >> i'd even -- i think you're exact
i was surprised that obama didn't bring it up. biggest surprise for me of the night is that it didn't come up. it's been the dominant thing in our debate for the last few weeks. >> david axelrod is coming up. jon meacham, you look over the past 25 years, 30 years or so, and you look at the republican presidential candidates who all have strengths, they've all been remarkable men in their own way, but not good debaters. you know, republicans have held our breath through the john mccain...
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what should president obama do to take control? >> well, i think first he has to make the kind of statement i was describing. restating u.s. policy but doing so very forcefully. we have been saying to israel, we've got your back. we're preparing for this. i think the broad pieces of this policy, this policy includes sanctions, this policy includes covert action, which is very aggressive. i don't know that i've ever seen a covert action program quite like this. and then it's got this threat over the horizon of actual military action, but the planning on the ground has already largely been done. there's pre-positioning, there's designation of sites that would be used. so all those pieces have to be pulled together. and i think the worst thing would be in this situation for the u.s. to be buffeted by a smaller ally in a matter of war and peace. these are decisions that american presidents have to take themselves. they have to hold all the instruments in their hands. i know from discussions that i've had with people in the administrati
what should president obama do to take control? >> well, i think first he has to make the kind of statement i was describing. restating u.s. policy but doing so very forcefully. we have been saying to israel, we've got your back. we're preparing for this. i think the broad pieces of this policy, this policy includes sanctions, this policy includes covert action, which is very aggressive. i don't know that i've ever seen a covert action program quite like this. and then it's got this...
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. >> president obama hosted david cameron this week taking him on a mandate to an ncaa tournament game where the boys watched hoops and destroyed a couple of hot dogs. >> was our president helping you follow the game? >> he was giving me tips, he's going to help me fill out my bracket. >> and he's going to teach me cricket. >> there was a second date the very next day on the south lawn of the white house. >> to think that 200 years ago my ancestors tried to burn this place down. >> and then things really got steamy at a black tie state dinner where the president recalled his favorite moments of the special relationship. >> when we met two years ago, we exchanged beers from our hometowns, when we had a barbecue, david and i rolled up our sleeves and decided to flip the burgers ourselves, and finally when david and i got beat pretty badly in table tennis by local london kids, both of them -- i'm quoting here -- looked a little confused. >> at number two, blago goes to jail. >> maybe you've got to be a little bit more humble. you can never have enough humility, and maybe i could have had
. >> president obama hosted david cameron this week taking him on a mandate to an ncaa tournament game where the boys watched hoops and destroyed a couple of hot dogs. >> was our president helping you follow the game? >> he was giving me tips, he's going to help me fill out my bracket. >> and he's going to teach me cricket. >> there was a second date the very next day on the south lawn of the white house. >> to think that 200 years ago my ancestors tried to...
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. ♪ >>> for the past week, both mitt romney and president obama, have you noticed this? they've been trying to lower expectations for their debate performance by insisting that they're not great debaters. based on some of their past debates, tomorrow could look like this. >> the -- uh -- >> i -- i don't want to -- >> let me just make a couple of points. my -- here's -- >> i hope they either take off the ad or make it correct. >> look, let's just be clear. >> we hired a lawn company to mow our lawn. >> as i said before -- >> and with my wife, we've, uh -- >> we have -- >> but what -- um, let's see. um -- uh, we could start with his idea to have a lunar colony that would mine minerals from the moon. >> you said that, uh -- let me just make a closing point. that made no sense whatsoever. >> can you imagine if somebody did that to us? >> uh, uh, uh -- >> no. you know what? >> that was funny. >> look at that. welcome back to "morning joe." sam stein and mark mckinnon are still with us here in washington along with mike barnicle in new york. mike, are you awake? >> i am. i am.
. ♪ >>> for the past week, both mitt romney and president obama, have you noticed this? they've been trying to lower expectations for their debate performance by insisting that they're not great debaters. based on some of their past debates, tomorrow could look like this. >> the -- uh -- >> i -- i don't want to -- >> let me just make a couple of points. my -- here's -- >> i hope they either take off the ad or make it correct. >> look, let's just be...
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. >> if you're barack obama, what are you rooting for in the next two weeks? >> oh, just enough activity to make mitt romney nervous. i think the last thing they want is for him to wrap this up early. they would like -- i was about to say they probably want a bigger field. i don't think so. i think they would like a solid alternative to romney to emerge to get some money and energy to prolong this contest. i think the problem for santorum who is running pretty well in new hampshire. you're looking at his campaign, he's sort of a natural campaigner for new hampshire. going to places where he'll take the tough questions. but if he wants to be that number two, it doesn't help that newt gingrich is staying in the game and particularly rick perry's in the game and ron paul who could be showing him, as well. i think the white house would like to see a solid number two to romney emerge and have the party coalesce around that one alternative candidate. seems that's the best way to elongate this process. >> and probably wanted santorum, correct? >> oh, yeah. i think an
. >> if you're barack obama, what are you rooting for in the next two weeks? >> oh, just enough activity to make mitt romney nervous. i think the last thing they want is for him to wrap this up early. they would like -- i was about to say they probably want a bigger field. i don't think so. i think they would like a solid alternative to romney to emerge to get some money and energy to prolong this contest. i think the problem for santorum who is running pretty well in new hampshire....
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. >> yeah, obama now tied with romney, 43-43. this is the first time romney has not led on this question. just to point out, though, this latest polling was conducted after last week's u.s. embassy attacks which appeared to have impacted the president's numbers on foreign policy. 49% approved, last month that number was 54%. that poll was taken before the release of that videotape. >> mark halperin, you also look at the state-by-state polls out right now, wisconsin, bad news, ohio, it seems the internals keep getting worse. i had one republican operative tell me yesterday there's some question how long they're going to stay in ohio. colorado right now, obama ahead there. virginia, a four-point lead there. mitt romney has an uphill battle. he can still win. we've said it time and time again. we'll keep saying it. but my gosh, just a miserable week for him. what are they talking about in boston? what's their next step? are they in a bunker, or do they understand they've got to make some dramatic changes? >> well, i think they all s
. >> yeah, obama now tied with romney, 43-43. this is the first time romney has not led on this question. just to point out, though, this latest polling was conducted after last week's u.s. embassy attacks which appeared to have impacted the president's numbers on foreign policy. 49% approved, last month that number was 54%. that poll was taken before the release of that videotape. >> mark halperin, you also look at the state-by-state polls out right now, wisconsin, bad news, ohio,...
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to backing obama. there's enough evidence in the poll to suggest that americans do want him to do well despite so many pockets of resistance. and i think the sense that americans feel like the economic situation's going to turn around is what they're really banking on as he asks for more time in the electorate. >> mark haleprin? >> there are fresh numbers that show romney opening up a lead in florida. certainly the conventional wisdom is romney's in a commanding position. what's the scenario between now and tuesday where gingrich can come back and win florida if you can see one. >> i think he needs a moment on the trail, number one. he is up with new negative ads. but i think the real problem that gingrich has. i go back to the guy with the best night last night was rick santorum. and any conservative who may start to feel a little bit squeamish about gingrich. as we've seen this play out before, it doesn't go to romney, it ends up finding another place to go, and santorum made himself a plausible plac
to backing obama. there's enough evidence in the poll to suggest that americans do want him to do well despite so many pockets of resistance. and i think the sense that americans feel like the economic situation's going to turn around is what they're really banking on as he asks for more time in the electorate. >> mark haleprin? >> there are fresh numbers that show romney opening up a lead in florida. certainly the conventional wisdom is romney's in a commanding position. what's the...
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president obama is giving a speech exactly two weeks from yesterday at the u.n. then ahmadinejad two weeks from today and then two weeks from tomorrow, benjamin netanyahu, israel's prime minister. and we haven't discussed this yet, will in a few minutes, i'm sure, but there is a new conflict or flap between the united states and israel over iran that emerged yesterday as well. an hour-long conversation between president obama who called netanyahu last night to try to smooth it over and then both sides issued statements which didn't really smooth over the rift. so you've got a lot in play here. and this is very challenging as the president is trying to campaign for re-election. >> yeah, we're going to get to israel in just a second. mark mckinnon in boston, i want to get to you because the chronology here is very important. andrea alluded to this back-and-forth between the romney and obama campaigns. the american embassy released a statement before the violence erupted in cairo in an apparent reference to this film and the pastor. the statement read, "the united s
president obama is giving a speech exactly two weeks from yesterday at the u.n. then ahmadinejad two weeks from today and then two weeks from tomorrow, benjamin netanyahu, israel's prime minister. and we haven't discussed this yet, will in a few minutes, i'm sure, but there is a new conflict or flap between the united states and israel over iran that emerged yesterday as well. an hour-long conversation between president obama who called netanyahu last night to try to smooth it over and then...
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last week it was just lobster business being sides. barack obama goes to clooney's house, raises $67 million, $7 million. the idea that romney's the one who is out of touch with middle america is a bit of a double standard. >> i don't think eight double standard. it's almost that he's just getting in with it. it's totally working for him. >> the big change in this fund-raising quarter comes from donors who donated less than 250. that says two things. one it says energy. the high powered donors, the campaign has to find them. those small donor donations are people getting moved and hopping on the web and nobody is asking them to do it. it also tells you to you can get back to them. >> dan has a good piece in the issue, too, but how he just doesn't like doing it. bill clinton, whenever he played golf, he would either have always a donut with him or swun who would tell sim something with the skmi. i understand but this poll shows that 59% of romney supporters say they are more against president obama than they are for romney. by compariso
last week it was just lobster business being sides. barack obama goes to clooney's house, raises $67 million, $7 million. the idea that romney's the one who is out of touch with middle america is a bit of a double standard. >> i don't think eight double standard. it's almost that he's just getting in with it. it's totally working for him. >> the big change in this fund-raising quarter comes from donors who donated less than 250. that says two things. one it says energy. the high...
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in the last few weeks it's done very well amongst independent women. last year mitt romney was beating him amongst independent women and he's taken the lead by that and some polls as much as 14 points. how much do you feel that the invasive ultrasound abortion bill that was in virginia had to do with this phenomenon? >> the poll came out yesterday. the roanoke college poll showed mitt romney up by six points in virginia. i'd say the governor is doing pretty well and i predict he'll win the state. i think virginia overall reflects america which is generally split on the issue. i'm pro life. we embrace a culture of life. >> you did pull the legislators off and they were pushing. >> right, and you wrote about that, joe. >> it was a good move. i just don't think that will help the women. >> my wife and my conservative pro-life wife who has never voted for a democratic president in her life goes what the hell's going in the republican party? you know we're in trouble. >> how did that one spin out of control? >> mika, we had 860 bells this session and one of
in the last few weeks it's done very well amongst independent women. last year mitt romney was beating him amongst independent women and he's taken the lead by that and some polls as much as 14 points. how much do you feel that the invasive ultrasound abortion bill that was in virginia had to do with this phenomenon? >> the poll came out yesterday. the roanoke college poll showed mitt romney up by six points in virginia. i'd say the governor is doing pretty well and i predict he'll win...